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before president obama arrives here, he is touring some must-win battleground states. he made two stops yesterday in iowa, including this one outside des moines. attended, we are told, by 10,000 people. the president has another big rally planned today in boulder, colorado. and that happens to be where we find our athena jones. hey, athena. >> reporter: hi, candy. on day two of what the campaign is calling their road to charlotte, the president speaks on yet another college campus. here at the university of colorado at boulder. we expect his message to be a lot like what we heard from him yesterday in iowa. another key battleground state where he spent part of its speech responding to what we heard from the republicans at their convention last week. let's listen to a little of what he had to say. >> despite all the challenges that we face in this new century, what they offered over those three days was, more often than not, an agenda that was better suited for the last century. [ applause ] >> it was a rerun. we'd seen it before. you might as well of watched it on a bl
before president obama arrives here, he is touring some must-win battleground states. he made two stops yesterday in iowa, including this one outside des moines. attended, we are told, by 10,000 people. the president has another big rally planned today in boulder, colorado. and that happens to be where we find our athena jones. hey, athena. >> reporter: hi, candy. on day two of what the campaign is calling their road to charlotte, the president speaks on yet another college campus. here...
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how can obama win. the average incumbent, the true incumbent, not someone who inherited the white house but someone who was elected already wins by an average of about six or seven points. if obama won the election by two or three points, that would be in some ways a tenuous position for an incumbent. but incumbents have run a campaign in a convention before. they'll probably make fewer errors around the margin. experience helps a bit. what incumbents normally do is fundraising. romney's raised a lot of money so far. the incumbency advantage is pretty powerful. >> now let's look at the electoral college and swing states. these are national numbers. when you narrow it down to looking at the places that are going to matter in delivering the magic 270 number, what do you see? >> well, i think ohio stands out first and foremost as being, as it often is, the most important state. you know, that's one state that you would think that if people are voting based on national economic conditions, maybe obama would
how can obama win. the average incumbent, the true incumbent, not someone who inherited the white house but someone who was elected already wins by an average of about six or seven points. if obama won the election by two or three points, that would be in some ways a tenuous position for an incumbent. but incumbents have run a campaign in a convention before. they'll probably make fewer errors around the margin. experience helps a bit. what incumbents normally do is fundraising. romney's raised...
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. >>> also, romney and obama seem to agree on outsourcing. they both hate it, but actually they should both embrace it. i'll tell you why. but first here's my take. over the last week as we watched rage and protest in the muslim world, people have asked why it's happening and because we're in a campaign season, that question has become a political one. some republicans say it is president obama's policies that have produced this atmosphere. he has projected weakness, offered olive branches, and been naive. but think about it. had president obama kept 100,000 troops occupying iraq, would that have made people in the middle east happier with america? had he given a more combative speech three years ago, would that have made radical islamists stay at home last week? the truth is, president obama nor any american president has much to do with t outbreak of protests over the last two weeks. it might be instructive to recall that after the 9/11 attacks, many asked the question why is there so much anger in the arab world, why do they hate us, and m
. >>> also, romney and obama seem to agree on outsourcing. they both hate it, but actually they should both embrace it. i'll tell you why. but first here's my take. over the last week as we watched rage and protest in the muslim world, people have asked why it's happening and because we're in a campaign season, that question has become a political one. some republicans say it is president obama's policies that have produced this atmosphere. he has projected weakness, offered olive...
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you can't -- you undo the regulatory burdens that obama has put in and threatened to put in. you get rid of obama care -- >> but this is all rhetoric. you've got a plan as a practical matter. as i said, clinton raised taxes, he cut growth. bush had the biggest tax cuts in a generation and he got the weakest growth in 30 years. you get, all i'm saying is, as a matter of practical planning for the fiscal future of the united states, your answer can't be, yeah, we'll have stronger growth. yeah, if we grow at 6%, we don't need to do anything. everything is solvent, right? but i can't wish for that. we've got to plan realistically. >> we know that if you reduce capital gains taxes, you actually get more growth. if we go to full expensing for business investment, we'll get more investment. we need to have an immigration policy that brings both talent and numbers to the country. we need to have a territorial tax system so a trillion dollars that's overseas can come back here and create jobs and opportunities while here making the country stronger -- >> if you could wave a magic wand
you can't -- you undo the regulatory burdens that obama has put in and threatened to put in. you get rid of obama care -- >> but this is all rhetoric. you've got a plan as a practical matter. as i said, clinton raised taxes, he cut growth. bush had the biggest tax cuts in a generation and he got the weakest growth in 30 years. you get, all i'm saying is, as a matter of practical planning for the fiscal future of the united states, your answer can't be, yeah, we'll have stronger growth....